You need to make up your mind if you want high quality and relevant, or if you want a bundle of over 1000 links at once. It just doesn't work that way.
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RE: Anybody Provide Quality Backlinks?
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RE: Local service site link building
I'm thinking about both links and just natural advertising. I'm from Santa Maria originally, so am familiar with the area. My first thought is Cal Poly students needing carpet cleaning (and general cleaning) before move-out at the end of the school year. Do you have any connections there with students who could tell you of any appropriate online newsletters where you could advertise your services?
Could you sponsor the monthly lunch of a group of realtors or property managers in exchange for a mention in a blog post or a list of resources?
I'm thinking people from your industry aren't your potential customers. Links are for more than just building links, they are also for building customers. Build some quality content that your potential customers might want to link to. For example, you might want to target Cal Poly students or Cuesta College students with mentioning that in your SLO area, and tips on carpet cleaning for an apartment, and why they should hire you instead of taking the cheap way out and renting a rug vac from the local hardware store.
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RE: Where to find specialized directories
You might try for some edu links too, if the product is something that is used by university labs. For an example local to me, if I was someone who sold surplus parts or metals or was targeting engineering students, I'd look at contacting some of the following following pages at Stanford from this query http://www.google.com/search?q=%22alan+steel%22+site%3Astanford.edu. This query is for Alan Steel, which is a local supply place. It gives me a lot of other pages where my hypothetical business might get a link
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RE: Best way to promote an infographic
Blueglass writes a lot about infographics and content promotion. Here's a post they have about finding the perfect network for your content promotion, which might help you. http://www.blueglass.com/blog/how-to-find-the-perfect-network-for-your-content-promotion-campaign/
A year ago, SEOmoz had a great post on building links with infographics at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-build-links-with-infographics
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RE: Best kind of backlinks
Keep in mind that the best links take some effort. They may not be paid links, but you will still need to spend time in creating good content that will naturally gather links, or in spending time to find relevant sites to contact. There is no sustainable free lunch out there.
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RE: Recommendation on a link building company?
You might want to look through SEOmoz and a couple of other places on the web to see more about how TopSEOs does their rankings. A kind way that many would say is that they are not a disinterested third party ranking service.
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RE: Which Link Strategy is Better: .edus or Blogs?
The one that doesn't promise me an exact number of links on a particular type of blog. I want the strategy that doesn't involve someone having easy control over all 100 links.
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RE: Links from Real Estate Websites Link Page, Do or Don't?
I would think that actually a lot of local resources could be relevant for a real estate site to have. The OP is part of a pest control firm. If they did termite inspections, that would be a very relevant link from a real estate agent. Same for a moving company carpet cleaning, housecleaning, etc. Anything that might be used when someone is moving in or moving out. Even if I were a coffee shop, I might team up with an agent to do a welcome gift basket for the people moving into an area (to get them familiar with my brand) and see if there was a way to get a link in a local recommended business section.
Note that this is hypothetical -- my business is model warship combat boats, and I really can't think of a good tie-in with real estate there without stretching things a whole lot.
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RE: Extracting contact info from a website
I don't recall the article off-hand, but we did recently have a post with a good argument against scraping contact info in advance. If you look at the third point at http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/5-pro-link-building-tips-to-improve-scalability you'll see why the author argues for getting the contact info right when you do the outreach.
As the owner of a niche site for an RC hobby, I get a lot of unsolicited emails regarding SEO services and selling of products where it's obvious that the sender has just harvested my email and has not really looked at my site. Trust me, you'll go a lot further if you actually look at the site and hand-gather the info.
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RE: Back link pyramid
Thanks for this helpful information. In the future, it'd be great if you could add the links that cite your sources, and indicate which portions of your answer have been reproduced from existing content.
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RE: LinkedIn SEO boost?
I created a company page for our business and it didn't cost anything. I'm not seeing anything about a cost on their company page overview at http://learn.linkedin.com/company-pages/, either.
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RE: Blog comments good for SEO
I can tell you that the impact from some high-quality blogs will be to delete your comment if you're using your keywords as your name. There was recently an entire post on this at http://ariherzog.com/and-blog-comment-spam-continues/
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RE: Open Site Explorer
We are aiming to update Open Site Explorer data on a monthly basis. The data isn't real time, but instead lags behind a few weeks (we crawl, then process, then publish). We just had an update, and there should be another update on August 3rd -- see our handy dandy calendar at https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/345964-linkscape-update-schedule.
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RE: What are your latest backlinks? How can you tell?
Google Webmaster Tools just released an option to download your most recent links. As long as you can verify the site in GWT, that should be really helpful for you.
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RE: Can I get your expert opinion?
I think there's a difference between looking at forums for ideas in general and using an aggregate of several questions to write an awesome blog posts that answers most of the questions people have about that topic, and writing a specific answer on your site to a question on another site, and going to that other site and just dropping a link to your site.
Using the posts for inspiration is fine IMHO, but as a user (or an admin) of a forum I'd quickly get irritated at a poster that is using the forum solely to link drop.
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RE: Linkbuilding Suggestions For Technical Site
Can you talk to the client and tell them you have an idea to build their links AND reduce some of the load on their sales and support personnel? Get content by having someone (you, or someone technical that is on contract) talk with the sales and support people and get FAQs about the products. Put on the web what they normally have to answer individually on the phone. Make your site better than the manufacturer when it comes to being the place to go for regarding controls.
For a more specific link idea, does the company sell to universities at all? Could you promote any type of deal for professors to be able to order supplies for engineering classes? Offer educational material that a prof could use on their syllabus that has a link back to you?
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RE: How Is It Possible That I Rank O Above Large Competitors?
Another similar thing to do is open up a private browsing / incognito browser window and try the search.
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RE: Press Release Sites
Thanks for letting us know Jeff, that's great to hear!
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RE: Blog Comments Criteria Question
I agree. Don't leave blog comments just to get links. The ones that will let you do that easily are not the blogs you want links on. The good blogs will have humans reviewing comments and systems put in place to make sure that you don't sign up for an account and drop links.
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RE: Client Content Strategy (or lack of)
If he answers those questions once on his website via an FAQ, then he doesn't have to go back and answer them time and time again in email and phone!
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RE: Using Matt Cutts on facebook adverts
I know I've seen some people on Twitter point out a FB ad to Matt that was using his picture. I'm thinking it was this ad, but not positive.
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RE: Link pipeline software
I personally prefer to have links to my site on pages that Google already knows about, not pages where I need to pay someone to create a ton of automated links so those links get noticed.
There are forums that may speak highly of this software, but SEOmoz isn't going to be one of those forums, it's just not in our philosophy. For more information on the viewpoint of many of the people around here, check out the beginner's guide to SEO and the chapter on building links at http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links
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RE: I found a link to my customer's site with an over-optimized
I did a search for "french quarter" on that domain, and found a cached link at http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JBWoP_J3zQcJ:www.derbymadness.com/my-profile/demolition-derby-groups/viewbulletins%3Fgroupid%3D12+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us. Looks like the page has since been edited/removed and is nothing to worry about now.
How it happened was that the link was there when Roger crawled, but he only crawls once a month or so, and the link was removed since the last crawl.
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RE: Any good site for Blog Submission (without any waiting/approval) ??
Hi Vikas,
That may be a tough one. I can speak from the other side of things. I don't submit guest posts, but I do review them for YouMoz so I get to see a lot of submissions from people wanting to post on the SEOmoz site.
You may have a difficult time finding a place that posts high-quality posts, allows followed links, and posts them quickly. The higher the quality blog, the more submissions there are to go through, and the more time it takes before something gets published.
At YouMoz, we try to not outright reject posts, but to spend time to help people craft a better post that will be a success on the blog. Some of our best authors are ones who had posts initially rejected, but were given suggestions for improvement. This does take time, and makes for a longer queue, but also makes for better posts.
When you are looking to submit a blog post to any site, I would highly recommend having the post reviewed by at least one other person before you submit, running your text through Word to look for spelling and grammar errors, making sure that all of the images you use are OK to use (you either have permission to use the copyrighted image, you've included proper attribution to a Creative Commons license, you developed the image yourself, etc.), and that you've followed all of the guidelines for the particular site to which you are submitting. Time spent upfront making a post can help reduce time spent in a review queue.
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RE: Position Drop - Anchor Text Penalty
Are you aware of links such as http://palomacosta.objectis.net/Qualidade/Members/phylishastings/fat-japanese-girl that are pointing to your site?
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RE: Does link from a blog in Blogger.com helps in SEO ?
Agreed. I'd spend the time writing content for your own site and building up your own site's authority, rather than building up the authority of another site.
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RE: My Question : why site explorer not showing yahoo directory link
Hi Amreen,
It could be that the link is newer and not yet showing up, or that the link is on a less-popular page on the Yahoo directory. Open Site Explorer is not able to crawl all of the web, but tries to crawl the more important pages. We can't get to everything, so that may be the reason it isn't showing.
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RE: Why do the results in SEOmoz and OSE for Linking Root Domains differ?
And that is why Ryan is an Oracle. Thanks for volunteering your time on Thanksgiving and helping answer questions, Ryan!
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RE: Article distribution do's and dont's
Better places on the web won't accept duplicate content.
What about writing for your website instead, so that when people look for that type of content in a search engine they find your site, and not the site of an article directory?
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RE: What are your best tactics for promoting an infographic?
SEOmoz has a few blog posts on this that can be helpful. Take a look at our search results at http://www.seomoz.org/pages/search_results#stq=infographic&stp=1
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RE: Directories Section on SeoMoz
We do maintain that list, and updated it in the past few months. Could you drop the help team a note (help at seomoz dot org) and let them know about the porn chat directory you saw? That's not the type of thing we would include on purpose!
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RE: External Followed Links in the Competitive Domain Analysis Report
We update the index every 3-4 weeks, so that would account for much of the variation in the links -- we find sites that no longer have a link to you, or we don't crawl a particular site in that crawl, etc.
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RE: Linkbuilding without blogging?
Have you read the Link Building section of the Beginner's Guide to SEO at http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links ?
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RE: High PR Web 2.0 sites
Keep in mind that is the toolbar pagerank of the home page. If you can get a link on www.wordpress.com that's great! But you're not going to get the same value out of brandnewsubdomain.wordpress.com.
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RE: Web 2.0 Sites | Guinea Pig?
Personally, I'd rather spend that time and money and effort on building the quality pages on my own site, and have people give my site the benefit instead of an external site that I can't control.
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RE: Best way to build inbound links?
Hi Jesse,
Welcome to SEOmoz and to Q&A. Thanks for the kind words!
I'm in the middle of something right now, but will think on this and come back. Look forward to seeing what others say as well.
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RE: Best way to build inbound links?
Joanna says Hello back, she's just over a couple of desks.
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RE: Link Building for extremely niche industry
Who uses your services? Libraries? Law firms? Newspapers? Do any businesses and individuals use it for keeping track of their own paperwork?
If newspapers used your services to scan their old issues, seems like you could make your site become the best resource ever on scanning. How to choose which scanner to use, how to hire someone to do it versus doing it inhouse, etc. Make it the place that everyone in that industry would go to for information.
I can empathize with niches. My husband runs a business that sells kits for model warships that shoot and sink each other. The number of people in the world who participate in this hobby is in the hundreds. We do have the "cool" factor going on, but really understand about the fun of being in a niche.
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RE: Perhaps the SEOMoz beginner's guide should be updated?
Marie, EGOL, and others: I'll forward this thread to the appropriate people at Moz, and agree that it would be helpful to update it. It was updated about a year ago, but I'll see if there are any quick changes we can make.
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RE: Does posting on blogs with anchored backlinks do you any good?
Just an FYI, all the links in Q&A are also nofollow.
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RE: Does posting on blogs with anchored backlinks do you any good?
We still get plenty of people trying to make link drops in here, and not everyone has a nofollow highlight on their browser or looks at the source code.
Sorry, I've asked for a copy of the algorithm so that I could know for sure, but nobody's given that to me yet, and I haven't done enough independent testing to know what the search engines think.
As a moderator, I will sometimes still remove hyperlinks even if it is nofollow, just because it looks spammy to users and distracts from the flow of the discussion in Q&A or the blog.
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RE: Any successes getting SEO/link vendors clean up Penguin-related problems they helped create?
And now we know that EGOL does not live in NYC, because the major there wouldn't allow you to get serving sizes that big.
Might be time to invest in a slurpee machine!
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RE: Backlinks from Open Site Explorer not updated
No, nothing you need to do, except be patient. We had to scrap a couple of index releases because the data was of poor quality, so the last index was released on July 11th and the next will be released on August 26th. sorry about the delay, and thanks for being patient!
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RE: 3 months of backlinks building is enough ?
Google updates all the time. The Toolbar PageRank icon is updated every few months, and is not an accurate reflection of Google's true ranking of the site.
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RE: Pinterest and Link Juice
Is this in OSE, or somewhere else? OSE doesn't index all of the web, so it could be that we just didn't index those particular links.
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RE: Anyone know anything about or ever used SubmitEdge?
It's actually been discussed several times in Q&A. You might find it helpful to do a search for it in Q&A, then ask a question based on the questions you have after reading other discussions.
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RE: Link Building
We also have some good info in the Beginner's Guide to SEO chapter on LinkBuilding at http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links